Dialogical rhetoric : an essay on truth and normativity after postmodernism /

Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared truth as such troublesome, and not merely gaining access to it. In a systematic survey this study investigates what is at stake when truth is given up. A historical overview shows how the current problem of truth came about, and suggests ways to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slob, Wouter H.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]
Series:Argumentation library ; v. 7.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Truth: What is the problem?
  • 1. The notion of truth
  • 2. Tracing the fifth confusion
  • 3. Theories of truth
  • 4. Tarski's semantic notion of truth
  • 5. A deflationary direction
  • 2. A short history of truth and related matters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The traditional understanding of truth
  • 3. Pre-modern philosophy; the logical space of truth
  • 4. The shift to the modern
  • 5. After foundationalism; rethinking rationality
  • 6. Differance
  • 7. A differant view
  • 3. From dialogue to rhetoric
  • 1. Logical spaces
  • 2. From dialectics to rhetoric
  • 3. Shifting rhetoric
  • 4. Conclusion
  • 4. What is wrong with fallacies?
  • 1. Formal invalidity
  • 2. Informal logic